One Monarch has to wait!

It is the prerogative of royalty to be fashionably late.

This spring, the Ice Monarch ebook was ready, edited and its cover designed, to be uploaded on all channels. Alas, the author had forgotten that one version of the story was still making the rounds of professional magazines. (Tsssk!)

Two weeks before the launch, a professional market has requested to “hold” the story. A “hold” request being almost the Graal for SF writers, Echofictions has agreed to sit on the publication until the matter is resolved.

Meanwhile, publication of the next book, Cardboard Boy, having its own cover design and editing completed, has been advanced.

A Fearless February !

As the famed Groundhog Day is on us, Echofictions now counts 6 titles (3 English and 3 French ) currently available on most plateforms.

The French version of Condor Cliff, presenting the fearless Lady Byrd, has been uploaded at the end of January.

2017 will see a bunch of new titles erupting : Monarque des glaces next April, with Cardboard Boy(Le garcon de carton) following up close. Those two longer stories from acclaimed SF writer Michèle Laframboise will start the Echovisions collection, socio- & science-fiction aimed at a mature public.

Equipped with her Sibley guide, explorer hat and field glasses, Amanda Byrd fearlessly pursues the most elusive winged species.

Following on her late husband’s footsteps, she explores a beautiful canyon, along with a gaggle of tourists led by Ed, a very patient native guide. As a majestic California Condor swoops overhead, Amanda discovers that their group has been trapped at the bottom… (more)

A short mystery story introducing the fearless and feisty Lady Byrd, by multiple-award-winning author Michèle Laframboise!

Condor Cliff is the second book in the WOW Stories collection of Echofictions, and the first in the Bold And Birding Series.

Wow can mean Wonderful Older Women, as those protagonists are still so rare in our mainstream fiction. But there are countless invisible women around us: the different, the marginalized, the shamed, the rejected, their inner strenght buried under unflattering physique, addiction, infirmity or unpopular tastes.

Those are the ones you pass in the street, without seeing them. Because they dwell so far from the center of the bell-shaped normal curve of standardized beauty that they don’t make a blink on your radar.

Those are the strange, the misfit, the shy, pushed aside but shoving back with all their might, none of them willing to accept to stay a doormat.

Ligia, a caustic geologist, overweight on Mars; Mistress Theodora, ruler of Gany City; Marilyn, a gen-altered Monroe look-alike slave burning to get freedom; Carmilla, a friendly and bumbling vampire orderly working at the the Icarus Nursing Home… and Armelle, a frail-boned and shy Martian born of two mothers.

Together, the older and bolder compose the Wonderful Odd Women, a series of novels, short-stories and novelettes in different genres, but celebrating the diversity of life, with humor, drama and gusto!

The first WOW story is coming out this month on Oct 20th: in French as well as in English